handicraft

Offers a portrait of the Mexican people, their lifestyles, and a representative sampling of their crafts.

Readers learn about different styles of warfare, and they learn about the role the United States played in each conflict.

The Civil War was a difficult time in American history, as the North and South fought each other over slavery and other divisive issues.

Provides instructions for recipes and crafts that teach about the culture of Germany.

Photographs, illustrations, and directions for projects that use natural materials such as rushes, grasses, wildflowers, fruits, herbs, and shells.

Suggestions for making pictures, sculpture, and constructions out of such "found" objects as string, boxes, bottle tops, stones, and crumpled paper.

Instructions for over sixty craft projects arranged by medium such as cardboard, newspaper, and yarn, which need only simple tools and materials.

Contains step-by-step instructions, color photographs, and dozens of creative ideas for painting rocks. Describes how to paint rocks to look like animals, fruit, monsters, cars, flowers, fairies, cacti, people, and numbers or letters. Also offers ideas for using painted rocks for decoration, jewelry, game pieces, or place settings.

Provides ideas and simple directions for writing, illustrating, designing, and binding books.

Provides step-by-step instructions for working with textiles to create such crafts as sock toys, friendship chains, and rosettes.